To facilitate the text editing HippoEDIT provides more than 300 integrated commands with customizable keyboard shortcuts, auto-completion using syntax dictionary and statistical information, real-time code hints with best guesses from the text editor and sophisticated code templates engine with a big set of built-in tags.

The text editor has code outlining, current scope and changed lines indication, mismatching brace highlighting, indent guides etc. greatly help in program analysis and navigation.

Clipboard ring, full support of text and files drag & drop, transparent usage of different clipboard formats to paste syntax-highlighted text into other applications, or paste highlighted code as HTML back into text editor smoothly integrates HippoEDIT in your work environment.